Cloud Pruning Made Easy - Full Demonstration - Japanese 'Niwake' Style Buxus or Boxwood.

Learn how to make Cloud Prune Boxwood (Buxus) topiary Japanese or 'Niwake' style. Create interest and stylish looks to your garden with Japanese pruning techniques.
We take an old boxwood plant and show you how to turn it into topiary sculpture.
Excellent for a showpiece in a small garden, a courtyard or even growing a container.
Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Cloud pruning Buxus.
00:48 Finding the Main Stem
01:23 Pruning away unwanted stems
02:11 Cleaning the lower stems
04:41 Staking stems to desired position
04:56 Example of 6 month Cloud pruned plant
05:03 Example of mature Cloud pruned boxwood.

[@gravelpit5680]

this "cloud pruning" is a more interesting shape than the traditional straightline hedges or spherical bush shapes. I approve. Im gonna do this to 25+year old Japanese box plants I have in my backyard

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for watching, and yes it does add more interest and imagination to the garden than other methods.

[@nerinat8371]

Great video, thx

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for watching. Hopefully a new one on ongoing pruning of Buxus (Boxwood) hedges and balls coming soon.

[@acts.412]

That's amazing. Question - when you tie the branches to the stakes, after some time will they hold that position if you remove the stakes?

[@cookwithkay9376]

what are those weird sounding birds in the background?

[@johnnyAGardening]

If its the part of the video I think you mean they are Australian Magpies, a sort of fine flute like sound..